Seattle Moves To Replace ‘Racist’ Police With ‘Trauma-Informed, Gender-Affirming, Anti-Racist’ Organizations

You really can’t make this stuff up!…

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World News (May 14, 2018 Edition): ‘Terrible massacre’: Israel kills 55, injures 2,771 Gaza protesters as US embassy opens in Jerusalem – Bill Gross’s Ex-Wife Stole A $35M Picasso From Their Bedroom And Replaced It With A Hand Drawing – Tesla Bursts Into Flames After “Violent Crash” In Switzerland, Killing Driver Trapped Inside – War On Cash Goes into Full Effect — Purchases Over $10,000 ILLEGAL in Australia – Hawaii Residents Flee Volcano As New Fissure Sends Lava “Several Hundred Feet Into The Air”

‘Terrible massacre’: Israel kills 55, injures 2,771 Gaza protesters as US embassy opens in Jerusalem

Israel Kills 52, Wounds 1,700 Gazans In “Terrible Massacre” As US Opens Jerusalem Embassy

Bill Gross’s Ex-Wife Stole A $35M Picasso From Their Bedroom And Replaced It With A Hand Drawing

– (And another) Tesla Bursts Into Flames After “Violent Crash” In Switzerland, Killing Driver Trapped Inside

War On Cash Goes into Full Effect — Purchases Over $10,000 ILLEGAL in Australia

Hawaii Residents Flee Volcano As New Fissure Sends Lava “Several Hundred Feet Into The Air”

Melania Trump Hospitalized For “Benign Kidney Condition” As Harry Reid Undergoes Pancreatic Cancer Surgery

Hellfire-Missile-Equipped Strykers Sent To Europe To Counter Russia

– Russia Deploys Exotic New Weapon: A “Budget Surplus”

The Army takes over Rio de Janeiro to Combat Organised Crime 

Mexico, the most violent in 20 years 

Retirees Face A “Pension Crisis” Of Their Own

Venezuela Prepares for Possible US Aggression 

First Venezuela, now Argentina on the verge of financial catastrophe

220 cases of “nightmare bacteria” with antiobiotic-resistant genes recorded in 27 states

Confirmed: Artificial Sweeteners Make You Fat and Sick

Read moreWorld News (May 14, 2018 Edition): ‘Terrible massacre’: Israel kills 55, injures 2,771 Gaza protesters as US embassy opens in Jerusalem – Bill Gross’s Ex-Wife Stole A $35M Picasso From Their Bedroom And Replaced It With A Hand Drawing – Tesla Bursts Into Flames After “Violent Crash” In Switzerland, Killing Driver Trapped Inside – War On Cash Goes into Full Effect — Purchases Over $10,000 ILLEGAL in Australia – Hawaii Residents Flee Volcano As New Fissure Sends Lava “Several Hundred Feet Into The Air”

USA: Seattle Police Begin Gun Confiscations: No Laws Broken, No Warrant, No Charges

Seattle Police Begin Gun Confiscations: No Laws Broken, No Warrant, No Charges:

A man in Seattle has had his gun confiscated by police after breaking no laws. The police took his gun without a warrant and without pressing any charges.  Tyranny has officially taken hold on American soil.

This sets a precedent that government can now forcefully take guns away from an individual without a crime being committed or an arrest being made and without a warrant. In the name of fear and political exploitation of anti-gun rhetoric, a citizen’s Second Amendment rights have been ripped away from him by the government.

The new “red flag” law, which has taken hold in other states already, allows the courts and law enforcement to take away guns from individuals they deem are dangerous and they’ve just begun the confiscationA man living in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington became the first individual in the state to have his firearm confiscated without any formal arrest or charges.  The man was not identified by authorities.

Read moreUSA: Seattle Police Begin Gun Confiscations: No Laws Broken, No Warrant, No Charges

Unexpected snow in Seattle

Unexpected snow in Seattle:

3 Nov 2017 – It’s a little bit unusual to have snow this time of year in the Seattle area, said meteorologist Dana Felton. Last year on this date, it was 65 degrees.

Temperatures dropped by 10 degrees in one hour at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Friday, bringing snow to “pretty much everywhere” outside Seattle, said Felton.

The snow caused “significant” delays at the airport, as well.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/temps-dropped-10-degrees-in-an-hour-ahead-of-this-mornings-seattle-area-snow/

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Seattle Passes Measure To “Tax The Rich”; There’s Just One Problem…

Seattle Passes Measure To “Tax The Rich”; There’s Just One Problem…:

After passing a $15 minimum wage intended to help low-income workers in Seattle, economists at the University of Washington produced a rather extensive research report a few weeks ago highlighting how the legislation was actually doing the exact opposite as companies were simply choosing to automate menial tasks, move businesses out of Seattle in search of more attractive wages rates or simply cutting back on employees to offset increased labor costs (we covered the study here: Seattle Min Wage Hikes Crushing The Poor: 6,700 Jobs Lost, Annual Wages Down $1,500 – UofW Study).

Unhappy with their failed experiment, the Seattle City Council decided to pursue a more direct form of income redistribution: a massive income tax on the rich.

Read moreSeattle Passes Measure To “Tax The Rich”; There’s Just One Problem…

Since Seattle Placed A Tax On Guns And Ammunition, The City’s Violent Crime Rate Has Increased

Since Seattle Placed A Tax On Guns And Ammunition, The City’s Violent Crime Rate Has Increased:

Comparing the first five months of 2017 with the same period before the gun tax went into effect, reports of shots fired are up 13%, the number of people injured in shootings climbed 37% and gun deaths doubled…

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Geology of the Seattle area (Video)

Geology of the Seattle area – Video:

If you’ve ever lived in the Seattle area, you will find this video by geologist Nick Zentner absolutely fascinating.

The geology of the Seattle, Washington, area is a direct result of multiple glacial advances that left drumlins, outwash, glacial troughs, and scattered glacial erratics as evidence of their passage.

Old tidelands filled by early residents of Seattle are now home to the SODO district, an active commercial area where both the Seattle Seahawks and the Seattle Mariners stadiums are located.

This video, entitled “Geology of Seattle and the Puget Sound,” was originally published on March 2, 2015

Tom Foster (http://HUGEfloods.com) and Nick Zentner (Central Washington University) have been hiking together in Washington for years. ’Geology of Seattle’ is part of an “I-90 Rocks” video series.

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Sunless in Seattle: Two Rainfall Records Smashed

Sunless in Seattle – Two Rainfall Records Smashed:

Only eight sunny days since October 1, 2016

Between Oct. 1, 2016 and April 25, 2017, a whopping 44.69 inches of precipitation had been measured at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. This toppled the previous October-through-April record for the city set just one year ago and is far, far above – almost 14 inches above  – the average for those seven months combined –  more than 44 percent above average.

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Mayor of Seattle is accused of repeatedly raping crack-addicted teenage boys and paying them $10 a time

Mayor of Seattle is accused of repeatedly raping crack-addicted teenage boys and paying them $10 a time:

The Mayor of Seattle has been accused of repeatedly raping teenage boys who were addicted to crack cocaine and paying them $10 a time.

Ed Murray, 61, reportedly ‘raped and molested’ a 15-year-old boy for up to five years after they met on a city bus in 1986, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday. 

Read moreMayor of Seattle is accused of repeatedly raping crack-addicted teenage boys and paying them $10 a time

Seattle Just Divested Billions From Wells Fargo Over Dakota Access Pipeline

Seattle Just Divested Billions From Wells Fargo Over Dakota Access Pipeline:

By: J. Gabriel Ware James Trimarco  From: Common Dreams

The movement to stop the controversial Dakota Access pipeline through financial activism took an important step forward today, as the Seattle City Council voted 9-0 to approve a bill that terminates a valuable city contract with Wells Fargo. The bank, one of the largest in the United States, has provided more than $450 million in credit to the companies building the pipeline.The move makes Seattle the first city to divest from a financial institution because of its role in the Dakota Access pipeline, a $3.8 billion project that would run from western North Dakota to Illinois, and is fiercely opposed by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Wells Fargo is one of 17 banks directly financing the project.

Read moreSeattle Just Divested Billions From Wells Fargo Over Dakota Access Pipeline

Chinese Driven Vancouver Housing Bubble Moves To Seattle – “This Is Vancouver 2.0”

Chinese Driven Vancouver Housing Bubble Moves To Seattle – “This Is Vancouver 2.0”:

Chinese money isn’t going to sit and wait.  Investors are going to find another city…This is Vancouver 2.0.”

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Seattle Police pepper-spray School Teacher Jesse Hagopian on MLK Day (Video)

H/t reader squodgy:

“A classic example of good old American Community Policing….”



Jan 28, 2015

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School teacher and Activist Jesse Hagopian pepper-sprayed by Seattle Police on MLK day 2015.
-Jesse on Twitter https://twitter.com/JessedHagopian
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Seattle obliterates previous low temperature record

Seattle obliterates previous low temperature record (Ice Age Now, Dec 4, 2014):

“Record low temperature shattered at Seattle WA WFO…”

A record low temperature of 24 degrees was set at Seattle Washington WFO  today. This obliterated the old record of 32 set in 1991.

… Record low temperature also set at Quillayute WA Airport…

A record low temperature of 19 degrees was set at Quillayute WA Airport today. This breaks the old record of 23 set in 1976.

Read moreSeattle obliterates previous low temperature record

Shocking Climate Change Update

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“Megablizzard” forecast for eastern Australia (Ice Age Now, June 23, 2014):

“Best snowfalls in a decade.” Maybe the “storm of the century.”

Aleutian volcanoes waking up (Ice Age Now, June 23, 2014):

Five volcanoes now simultaneously active, the most activity in 26 years.

Record snowfall in Norway (Ice Age Now, June 23, 2014):

First time since records began that snow has been recorded in June.

Surprise Snowstorm Clobbers Rockies (Ice Age Now, June 23, 2014):

June 20, 2014 – “A bizarre June snowstorm hit Glacier National Park in Montana and parts of Utah and Idaho this week,

Confirmed – Earth’s protective magnetic shield is weakening (Ice Age Now, June 22, 2014):

The most dramatic declines are occurring over the Western Hemisphere, says European Space Agency.

Read moreShocking Climate Change Update

AND NOW: Seattle Police Deploy Crime Prediction Software City-Wide


Seattle Police Deploy Crime Prediction Software City-Wide (Secrets Of The Fed, May 24, 2013):

After initial testing in two precincts, The Seattle Police Department and Mayor Mike McGinn announced last week that they will now deploy their “Predictive Policing” software to all five precincts.

The federally-funded cloud-based crime prediction software known as PREDPOL, uses mathematical algorithms similar to ones used in earthquake prediction to predict when and where a future crime is most likely to take place down to a 500-square foot area. The program combines five years’ worth of past crime data with sociological information about criminal behavior.

“We’ve had anecdotal successes with the pilot project in East and Southwest Precincts, so we’re expanding Predictive Policing citywide,” said Mayor McGinn

Read moreAND NOW: Seattle Police Deploy Crime Prediction Software City-Wide

Just Say NO: Seattle Residents Kill the City’s Drone Program

Just Say NO: Seattle Residents Kill the City’s Drone Program (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Feb 19, 2013):

The anti-surveillance state movement is gaining traction and following Charlottesville, Virginia becoming the first city to pass anti-drone legislation, the engaged citizenry of Seattle have now succeeded in killing their city’s own drone program earlier this month.  On the state level, while legislation has been introduced in several places, it appears Florida is closest to enacting domestic surveillance drone regulations into law.  The title of the bill is the “Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act.”

From Forbes:

Read moreJust Say NO: Seattle Residents Kill the City’s Drone Program